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Life sentences: on reviewing and renewing
Can performance reviews escape from the sentences of the courtroom or the classroom, and live a little more?
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Visible and erased: the case of the ‘Alzheimer’s ballerina’
What does the viral video of a former dancer with Alzheimer’s disease suggest about the dancer, about disease, about us?
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Giri/Haji
The BBC/Netflix crime drama Giri/Haji is another sign of mainstream media turning to contemporary dance for inspiration and innovation
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Adrien M & Claire B: Faire corps
A rapturous fusion of sensation and motion, imagination and engineering, and body with light
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Marcos Morau: Sonoma, Surrealism and me
Threads of history – artistic, cultural, personal – lie beyond the exuberant images and costumes of Marcos Morau’s new work Sonoma
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The leap into the abyss and the need to heal again
Anastasio Koukoutas spoke to some recent dance graduates to find out how they feel about their future, in the face of the coronavirus crisis
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Dancing virtually into the London Film Festival
Alongside dance documentaries, the new LFF Expanded strand is taking steps into virtual dancing
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Danser Brut – outsider dance
A wide ranging exhibition across two museums in Belgium affords fascinating visions of the idea of ‘outsider dance’
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Act of Love
Animal courtship dances transformed into human choreography by Russell Maliphant, to advertise condoms
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kinkaleri: is it my world?
How a public relay by Italian group kinkaleri turns into a fruitful question: have we become estranged from the world we created?
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POOL International Dance Film Festival 2020
A conversation on the highlights from this year’s POOL international dance film festival Berlin, with Springback Berliners Beatrix Joyce and Evgeny Borisenko
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Domokos Kovács & Petra Nagy: Do not feed the polar bears
Two Hungarian creators on their response to environmental questions in conception, production and performance of their latest work
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Moonrise Kingdom
In Wes Anderson’s 2012 film, two runaway pre-teens dance on the empty beach of an unknown land called love
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To sit or not to sit? The question of movement direction
What do movement directors do? A new collection of interviews shines a light on an overlooked craft
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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Radouan Mriziga: 3ird5@w9rk
The intersection of nature with culture – a garden – forms the setting for a site-specific duet by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga
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Faye Driscoll: Guided Choreography for the Living and the Dead
Choreography through headphones, motionless performance within our heads, self-isolation and fantasy – Faye Driscoll’s ’audio choreography’ gets inside you
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Talkabout: Urban dance languages at Peepshow Palace
A dialogue on content, context and tradition in urban dance at a corona-proof performance season in Amsterdam
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Forward steps
Rather than longing for the past, some dance artists are using the pandemic crisis to imagine futures for performance
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Local leads the way: Pelzverkehr Festival, Austria
The Covid crisis is shifting focus from the international to the regional – but festivals such as Pelzverkehr have already been there for years
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Unknown waters: Berlin’s Tanz im August after Covid
Tanz im August director Virve Sutinen on rethinking the festival for post-pandemic times
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Being together apart: the hollowing of the post-quarantine public
A public performance ‘practice’ in Athens responded to the coronavirus crisis – but did ‘The Crater’ rethink or recreate its underlying conditions?
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Protein synthesis – an epic on the cellular level
A mind-blowing, free-spirited dance film that is both scientifically exact and culturally far out
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Peeping Tom: The Missing Door, The Lost Room
Works in mysterious ways: two pieces by Belgian physical theatre company Peeping Tom
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Pere Faura: Rèquiem Nocturn
Pere Faura’s extravagant tribute to Bob Fosse mixes mortality with showbiz and mundane life
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Life sentences: on reviewing and renewing
Can performance reviews escape from the sentences of the courtroom or the classroom, and live a little more?
-
Visible and erased: the case of the ‘Alzheimer’s ballerina’
What does the viral video of a former dancer with Alzheimer’s disease suggest about the dancer, about disease, about us?
-
Giri/Haji
The BBC/Netflix crime drama Giri/Haji is another sign of mainstream media turning to contemporary dance for inspiration and innovation
-
Adrien M & Claire B: Faire corps
A rapturous fusion of sensation and motion, imagination and engineering, and body with light
-
Marcos Morau: Sonoma, Surrealism and me
Threads of history – artistic, cultural, personal – lie beyond the exuberant images and costumes of Marcos Morau’s new work Sonoma
-
The leap into the abyss and the need to heal again
Anastasio Koukoutas spoke to some recent dance graduates to find out how they feel about their future, in the face of the coronavirus crisis
-
Dancing virtually into the London Film Festival
Alongside dance documentaries, the new LFF Expanded strand is taking steps into virtual dancing
-
Danser Brut – outsider dance
A wide ranging exhibition across two museums in Belgium affords fascinating visions of the idea of ‘outsider dance’
-
Act of Love
Animal courtship dances transformed into human choreography by Russell Maliphant, to advertise condoms
-
kinkaleri: is it my world?
How a public relay by Italian group kinkaleri turns into a fruitful question: have we become estranged from the world we created?
-
POOL International Dance Film Festival 2020
A conversation on the highlights from this year’s POOL international dance film festival Berlin, with Springback Berliners Beatrix Joyce and Evgeny Borisenko
-
Domokos Kovács & Petra Nagy: Do not feed the polar bears
Two Hungarian creators on their response to environmental questions in conception, production and performance of their latest work
-
Moonrise Kingdom
In Wes Anderson’s 2012 film, two runaway pre-teens dance on the empty beach of an unknown land called love
-
To sit or not to sit? The question of movement direction
What do movement directors do? A new collection of interviews shines a light on an overlooked craft
-
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Radouan Mriziga: 3ird5@w9rk
The intersection of nature with culture – a garden – forms the setting for a site-specific duet by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga
-
Faye Driscoll: Guided Choreography for the Living and the Dead
Choreography through headphones, motionless performance within our heads, self-isolation and fantasy – Faye Driscoll’s ’audio choreography’ gets inside you
-
Talkabout: Urban dance languages at Peepshow Palace
A dialogue on content, context and tradition in urban dance at a corona-proof performance season in Amsterdam
-
Forward steps
Rather than longing for the past, some dance artists are using the pandemic crisis to imagine futures for performance
-
Local leads the way: Pelzverkehr Festival, Austria
The Covid crisis is shifting focus from the international to the regional – but festivals such as Pelzverkehr have already been there for years
-
Unknown waters: Berlin’s Tanz im August after Covid
Tanz im August director Virve Sutinen on rethinking the festival for post-pandemic times
-
Being together apart: the hollowing of the post-quarantine public
A public performance ‘practice’ in Athens responded to the coronavirus crisis – but did ‘The Crater’ rethink or recreate its underlying conditions?
-
Protein synthesis – an epic on the cellular level
A mind-blowing, free-spirited dance film that is both scientifically exact and culturally far out
-
Peeping Tom: The Missing Door, The Lost Room
Works in mysterious ways: two pieces by Belgian physical theatre company Peeping Tom
-
Pere Faura: Rèquiem Nocturn
Pere Faura’s extravagant tribute to Bob Fosse mixes mortality with showbiz and mundane life
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